Example sentences of "[adv] fell into " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt that the design for this holiday picture should be a natural and less structured design than normal , so I laid out the pressed stems of eucalyptus which naturally fell into a fan shape and used that as the basis of my design . |
| 2 | The rest of the conversation suddenly fell into place . |
| 3 | The fieldwork data basically fell into three categories : that which I felt could definitely be published , that which could definitely not be published , and that which I was unsure about . |
| 4 | Faced with mortgages charged at 15.4 per cent and higher , borrowers could n't afford to keep up their payments and so fell into arrears . |
| 5 | I rolled and tossed and kept thinking of Mum , and only fell into a doze at dawn . |
| 6 | It had taken Christina a long time to grow accustomed to the nocturnal sounds of the tropics , but she loved them now , and finally fell into a deep sleep , lulled by the incessant chirping of crickets , wind rustling the huge traveller 's palm outside the bedroom window , and the Caribbean sea breaking gently on the shore . |
| 7 | She dozed and woke , dozed and woke and finally fell into a light sleep , only stirring when she heard a voice addressing her from what seemed like a million miles away . |
| 8 | The small tenant and peasant easily fell into debt : in the Levante , huertas to the merchants of the ports ; in Castile , to the corn merchants ; in Galicia , to the lawyers . |
| 9 | It was just a great romantic thing , when one somehow fell into this man 's arms — like Hollywood films . |
| 10 | The city argues that the mural was taken carefully from the wall , but somehow fell into the student 's hands . |
| 11 | After school she went to do her chores , but soon fell into her customary trance of curiosity . |
| 12 | M. soon fell into arrears with the rent . |
| 13 | Mr. Mahmoud was not a satisfactory tenant and soon fell into arrears with the rent . |
| 14 | The cheapness of the method , combined with the ease in ensuring that a particular colour would be identical in shade to the one used earlier , meant that plant dyes soon fell into disuse except in remote country areas . |
| 15 | Chris and I soon fell into the swing of peat-cutting . |
| 16 | But it just fell into me as I stood there with her . |
| 17 | All he tried to do was relax and enjoy himself , ‘ and everything just fell into place . ’ |
| 18 | But this did not prevent the Dominicans from setting out that war could be justified as a means of restoring order in situations of political or social disharmony , for instance between territories ( here we see the beginnings of the idea of the territorial unit and the defence of its justifiable rights ) or between sovereign rulers and their vassals ( if the vassal chose to rebel against his lord and thus fell into a state of disobedience ) . |
| 19 | It was this vision of order that held his vast empire together and on his death the entire vision collapsed , and the realm rapidly fell into decay and disunity . |
| 20 | The two women quickly fell into a pattern . |
| 21 | Konrad Adenauer , who saw rearmament as an indispensable part of his own Western-oriented policy of strength , quickly fell into line behind Eden , and the others followed shortly thereafter . |
| 22 | Theda was more amused than offended , and when the assistants began scurrying about the little salon on the first floor , bringing samples for her to try , she very quickly fell into a mood of unqualified enjoyment . |
| 23 | As this was my first experience of squadron life , I quickly fell into its easy way , I was rather surprised to find I was already selected to play rugger for the squadron the following Sunday , and also went straight into the squadron tennis team . |
| 24 | And the embarrassed questioner retreats , apologising profusely , wondering why he ever fell into such absurd anxiety about this luminously sensible body of doctrine … |
| 25 | It hardly fell into the same category as the calculated thuggery of the last Lions tour or the almost casual butt which recently reduced the Great Britain Rugby League team to 12 men . |
| 26 | Rolle 's great contemporary St Catherine of Siena ( 1347–80 ) once fell into the fire when she was in ecstasy though she was supposed to be cooking a meal . |
| 27 | However , it gradually fell into disuse and was finally abandoned by its last users , the public notaries , in the sixteenth century . |
| 28 | Following the decline of the Stockton to Darlington railway , the station gradually fell into disrepair and was repeatedly vandalised . |
| 29 | At the turn of the decade , however , there was a huge sulphurous swamp full of that sort of anaemic disco for people with beanbags for legs , and the New FADs nearly fell into it . |
| 30 | Charles flicked back the lock of straight brown hair which habitually fell into his eyes , and shrugged with a touch of irritation . |